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US HITS:
1987 Give Me All Your Love
1987 Here I Go Again
1987 Is This Love
1987 Still of the Night
1989 Fool for Your Loving
1989 Slip of the Tongue
1990 Now You're Gone
1990 The Deeper the Love

UK HITS:
1980 Fool For Your Loving
1981 Don't Break My Heart Again
1981 Would I Lie To You
1982 Here I Go Again / Bloody Luxury
1983 Guilty Of Love
1984 Give Me More Time
1987 Still Of The Night
1987 Is This Love
1987 Here I Go Again (remix)
1988 Give Me All Your Love
1990 The Deeper The Love
1990 Now You're Gone
1994 Is This Love (re-issue) / Sweet Lady Luck

2 Top 10 US Albums 8 Top 10 UK Albums

2005

David Coverdale was born on 22nd September
1951 in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire in the United Kingdom.
His parents managed a pub ‘The
Red Lodge’ in the town. This was also the scene of David’s
first public solo performance at the age of 12.

He went to school at Huntcliffe Secondary Modern in Saltburn.

He studied for a short time at Green Lane Art College in Middlesbrough
training to be a graphic design artist and a teacher.

During this time he sang with an assortment of local bands in his spare
time, David soon discovered that his heart belonged to rock and roll
and the outlet it offered him for emotional and artistic expression.

Inspired by his all-time hero, singer guitarist Jimi Hendrix, and American
blues singers such as Muddy Waters, Bobby Bland and soul singers; Otis
Redding and Wilson Pickett, David decided to concentrate on making a
career in music.

In 1973, aged 21 and working
in a men’s boutique by day and singing
in a local club band ‘Fabuloso Brothers’ by night, he answered
an ad in Melody Maker for the job of lead singer with Deep Purple, famously
enclosing a photo of himself as a boy scout with his audition tape.

In a classic rags-to-riches story
David was plucked from obscurity and became the front man of one of
the biggest bands in the world at that time – Deep Purple. He
remained with Deep Purple from 1973 to 1976 and was featured on such
classic albums as Burn, Stormbringer, Made In Europe and Come Taste
The Band.

After resigning from the band
in March 1976, David released a low-key solo album entitled David Coverdale ‘Whitesnake’ followed
by ‘Northwinds’ the next year, by which time he had formed
the band known as ‘Whitesnake’. "It was the height of
the punk era", he recalls, "and I was told nobody was interested
in hard rock. So I booked a tour of several little clubs and theatres
in England, and found there were thousands of people waiting to get in.
I thought, “somebody is definitely wrong'".

From these humble beginnings
in 1977 Whitesnake was to go from strength to strength. “Fool For Your Loving”, a song David had originally
written for blues artist BB King, became the band's breakthrough hit
in the United Kingdom. Through one EP (Snakebite) and 6 albums (Trouble,
Lovehunter, Ready An’ Willing, Live...In The Heart Of The City,
Come An Get It and Saints & Sinners, Whitesnake established itself
as a major force in Europe and Japan over the next six years.

After sell-out tours, setting new attendance records and conquering
the continental charts, the Snake was ready to take on the States. In
1984 Whitesnake was signed to Geffen Records and shortly afterwards David
relocated to the US, which has been his home ever since.

1984 saw the band's American
debut album, ‘Slide It In’,
including tracks such as “Love Ain't No Stranger” ‘Slow & Easy’ and
the title cut, helped it become a Top 40 multi-platinum hit. Whitesnake
had conquered the New World. Unfortunately, thanks to a serious sinus
illness that threatened David’s ability to ever sing again, Whitesnake
would not be a heard from for three more years.

When David did return, his voice
as strong as ever, he led Whitesnake to global superstardom with the
phenomenal success of the self-titled 1987 album. Selling more than
ten million copies in the US alone, 1987 held the no. 2 position on
the charts for more than six months and contained the no. 1 single “Here I Go Again”. The follow-up “Is
This Love” reached no. 2. It also featured the rock anthem ‘Still
Of The Night’.

1987 was named Album Of The Year by music publications around the world.

In 1989 Whitesnake released the
Top 10 multi-platinum-selling follow-up ‘Slip
Of The Tongue’, continuing what Coverdale, with tongue firmly in
cheek, calls the band's rock 'n' roll "sex drama", "exploring
the themes of love on an assortment of different levels, mostly horizontal
and perpendicular…knee-trembling levels."

In 1990, following a 3-year stint of constant touring and recording,
David took a break from Whitesnake to collaborate with legendary Led
Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page on the highly- successful 1993 Coverdale/Page
album and subsequent Japanese tour.

Following the no. 1 ‘Greatest Hits’ release and accompanying
tour in 1994, Whitesnake released the ‘Restless Heart’ album
in 1997, a no. 1 hit on the Japanese charts. Originally, the album was
meant as a Coverdale solo record , but, the ‘powers that be’ at
EMI wanted it as a Whitesnake album. This was closely followed by an
unplugged album, ‘Starkers In Tokyo’, which David explains
as follows:

"When Adrian (Vandenberg) and I were asked by Toshiba EMI to perform
an acoustic set of songs whilst promoting the ‘Restless Heart’ album
in Japan, we were initially unenthusiastic. Even through we usually write
our rock songs on acoustic guitars, it is with the vision of the finaldrum
driven, electric guitar fuelled, chest beating "Tarzan" vocal
approach that people know as Whitesnake. However, as writers, we also
believe that if a song is of any worth you should be able to present
it any way you care to. Fast, slow, loud or soft as long as the integrity
and emotional essence is intact. So, we decided to accept the challenge
of "undressing" our songs to the bare essential; one acoustic
guitar and one voice”. Recorded in front of an invited audience, ‘Starkers
In Tokyo’ followed ‘Restless Heart’ to the no. 1 spot
on the Japanese charts.

Following Whitesnake’s sell-out world tour of 1997, David put
the band on hiatus to concentrate on being a husband to Cindy and father
to Jasper, after missing out on most of the early years of his now grown-up
daughter because of the constant touring schedules of the late 70’s
and 80’s.

2000 saw the release of a David
Coverdale solo album, ‘Into The
LIGHT.’, and the launch of Whitesnake.com…one of the most
regarded, and successful band websites in contemporary music.

In 2003 Whitesnake enjoyed a
triumphant return to the US live scene for the first time in 12 years
on what David dubbed the “Mmmm,
Nice Package Tour”.

David then headed to Europe with
his “New Snakes for the New
Millennium”, where they headlined the Monsters of Rock tour. The
band finished touring in Japan in September 2003…”I left
home for a two month tour in January…and returned nine months
later!!!”…David said. “It appears people missed Whitesnake
as much as I missed performing”.

To celebrate the band’s Silver Jubilee (25 year anniversary)
in 2003, EMI released 2 ‘Best of’ albums a single Best of
Whitesnake CD on 17th March and a double Anthology on May 12th.

‘The Early Years’…a companion volume to the anniversary
CD’s was released in 2004 to coincide with Whitesnake’s successful
3 month European tour.

The band filmed several shows on the tour for their first live DVD
to be released in Summer 2005, and recorded many shows from the 2003-2004
tours for a new live CD tentatively scheduled for a 2006 release.